Water Supply Scheme: Corruption case filed against nine officials

HANGU: An FIR was registered against nine officials on Friday for alleged corruption in Tora Warhi Water Supply Scheme in Hangu. According to an official of Hangu Anti-Corruption Circle Hazrat Umar, the water supply scheme launched in 2008 and completed in 2009 was under investigation for alleged corruption of Rs10.25 million. Umar added Communication and Works (C&W) officials had awarded the contract for the scheme to a man named Naeem Khan, however, Khan left work on the scheme unfinished. Following this, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Anti-Corruption Director Fayaz Ali Shah issued directives to launch an inquiry. A case was filed against former XEN Ziaur Rahman, former SDO and acting C&W XEN Mubarak Hussain, XEN PHE Wilayatullah, SDO Azizullah, XEN Taj Ali Khan, sub-engineer Masood Ahmad Khan and contractor Naeem Khan, among others. Umar further said the case was filed after final investigation was completed and the project was visited on January 2.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 11^th, 2014.